stressed - Story 140897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ava like a physical blow. A 'C' on her midterm, a grade that seemed to mock her dedication. She stared at the screen, her eyes blurring. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to fight back the overwhelming feeling of failure. The familiar comfort of her own room felt suddenly alien. She wrapped her arms around herself, as if trying to physically contain the turmoil.

Emotion: stressed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.37 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.53

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion stressed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 stressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the stressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the stressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😩`	0.266
`😫`	0.256
`😰`	0.239
`😖`	0.237
`😞`	0.236

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.200
`happy`	-0.197
`enjoy`	-0.176
`enjoying`	-0.172
`bahagia`	-0.169